Ilka Štuhec - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Seasons 6 Weight 72 kg Name Ilka Stuhec World cup debut March 17, 2007		Role Alpine skier Siblings Dora Stuhec Height 1.72 m

Disciplines Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom, Slalom, Combined Club BRM – SK Branik Maribor Born October 26, 1990 (age 34) Slovenj Gradec ( 1990-10-26 )

Ilka Stuhec | Gold Medal | Ladies' Downhill | Are | FIS World Alpine Ski Championships

Ilka Stuhec | "I'm here again" | Ladies' Downhill | Are | FIS World Alpine Ski Championships

Ilka Štuhec (born 26 October 1990) is a Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. She is a three-time FIS Junior World Champion in three different disciplines. In 2017, she became a world champion in downhill.

Career

At the Junior World Championships in 2007, Štuhec won two gold medals (slalom and combined) in Flachau, Austria. The following year she won another gold, in the downhill in Formigal, Spain. She made her World Cup debut at age 16 in March 2007 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

Ilka Štuhec Slovenia39s Ilka Stuhec posts breakout win in Lake Louise CBC

Štuhec gained her first World Cup victories in December 2016, back-to-back wins in the downhill in Canada at Lake Louise. She had consecutive wins two weeks later in Val d'Isère, France, and won her fifth event of the 2017 season in late January in Italy. At the World Championships at St. Moritz in February, she won the gold medal in downhill. On 26 February 2017, Štuhec won the alpine combined title in World Cup.